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Saturday, 29 July 2017

From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness.

Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
Created in collaboration with neuroscientists and people who experience psychosis, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice will pull you deep into the melancholic fury of Senua’s shattered mind.

The Sims 4 is a life simulation game that gives you the power to create and control people in a virtual world and play with life. Express your creativity as you customize your Sims distinct appearances and unique personalities. Build your Sims the perfect home with design options for you to shape its appearance on the outside and inside. Play with the moments of your Sims lives. Build relationships with other Sims; pursue new careers and develop unique skills for your Sims. Explore beautiful game worlds full of interesting Sims to meet and venues to visit. Your Sims can travel between game worlds to check out a variety of unique environments and locations. Who will your Sims be and what’s the stories will you create? It’s up to you. Have fun, be powerful, and play with life in The Sims 4.

Create Your Sims: You can create who you want in The Sims 4. You can customize your Sims distinct appearances including sculpting their body shape and choosing from a variety of ethnicities, hairstyles; clothing options, and the accessories that make your Sims unique people. Select your Sims personality traits and determine their aspiration in life. You can create and play with multiple Sims.

Build Your Sims the Perfect Home: Effortlessly customize its appearance from the outside and inside including furnishings, landscapes, and neighborhood locations. You can even add unique features like pools and basements for your Sims home.* Be inspired by curated, Styled Rooms that you can easily add to your game.

Play with Life: Have fun and be powerful when you play with life in The Sims 4. Your choices shape the rich and entertaining moments you create with your Sims lives. Who will your Sims be? What will they become? Pursue their dream job; develop their skills; make them new friends or start a family when you build relationships other Sims. You can creatively play in your own unique way in The Sims 4.

Explore Beautiful Game Worlds: Explore the beautiful, worlds of The Sims 4 full of rich communities of Sims and interesting venues to visit. Your Sims can travel between game worlds to check out the unique environments and locations of each world. Expand your Sims social circle and meet new Sims in each world’s vibrant neighborhoods and unique destinations.

ADDITIONAL INFO: The Elite Series is a new esports circuit focused on bringing together the world’s top-performing players of the single-elimination, massive arena shooter H1Z1. It will feature tournaments in the North American, European, APAC (Asia-Pacific) and LATAM (Latin America) regions. For a closer breakdown of the Elite Series, visit https://www.h1z1.com/king-of-the-kill/elite-series.

H1Z1 is a single-elimination, massive arena shooter that pits 150 battle-hardened players against each other in a robust and detailed world. Players scavenge for weapons, ammo, armour, vehicles and life-saving supplies to gain the upper hand on the competition and be the last one standing. To learn more, visit www.H1Z1.com/KotK, and follow the game on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Twitch.

Daybreak Games is a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games and emergent gameplay best known for its blockbuster hits and franchises, such as H1Z1®, EverQuest®, EverQuest®II, PlanetSide®2 and DC Universe™ Online. Daybreak creates, develops and provides compelling online entertainment for a variety of platforms. To learn more, visit www.DaybreakGames.com.

Wednesday, 19 July 2017

Navigating the corridors, rooms and grounds of Italian psychiatric asylum the Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra today elicits a very different atmosphere to when it was still fully operational – right up until the late 1970s. Its walls have succumbed to nature and its roofs no longer protect from the elements, yet remnants of the pain once suffered on its grounds are still palpable in the air.

In the haunting behind the scenes video ‘Building The Town of Light,’ game developer LKA.it explores the asylum, its surroundings and the emotional scars it left upon its inhabitants, highlighting how LKA digitally restored it for the award winning, first-person psychological adventure game, The Town of Light. Other discussion points include the challenges of development, the endeavor’s jarring subject matter, and how the importance of the narrative meant LKA.it were determined to overcome anything to deliver one of the most compelling stories of recent times.

Watch ‘Building The Town of Light’ below

Winner of the indieDB Editor’s Choice 2015 award for “Best Visuals” and Game Connection Paris 2014 award for “Best Narrative,” The Town of Light is a first-person, story-driven adventure game set in the Volterra Psychiatric Asylum. The asylum was shut down in the late 1970s due to an Italian law that instructed all asylums to close completely and give back patients their civil rights.

Developed by LKA.it and co-published with Wired Productions, The Town of Light is out now on PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and Windows PC in physical and digital formats for SRP £15.99/€19.99/$19.99. The Town of Light has been rated PEGI 18.

Frenetic parkour-platformer Super Cloudbuilt flies to PS4 on 25th of July, with pre-orders available now. Play as Demi, a wounded soldier who awakens in a strange new world, separated from her body. Explore, boost and speedrun with your exosuit and energy weapon, through precarious levels to master your new talents and come to terms with this strange environment.

It is the official mobile game of Luc Besson’s upcoming sci-fi movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets starring Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne. The legendary director is famous for creating sci-fi blockbusters including The Fifth Element and Lucy.

The film has been described as visually spectacular and the mobile game creates an engaging experience that will draw players into the Valerian universe.

Valerian: City of Alpha was built from the astonishingly intricate backstory created for the movie. Gamers get to explore that super cool universe for themselves.

“Spil Games has successfully captured our movie in a mobile game,” says Virginie Besson-Silla, the movie’s producer. “What we see is an immersive experience that Valerian fans will have fun with.”

The movie is set on the astonishing City of Alpha — an ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and culture with one another.

The mobile game begins 590 years earlier when Alpha is still just a space station. The aim is to explore and discover the aliens and planets that will come to be featured in the movie. Players have to complete exciting missions, connect with alien species and come up with strategies to help them create the knowledge-sharing metropolis. The ultimate objective is building for themselves the biggest and best version of the City of Alpha.

Much more than just a game of a movie...

• Revel in stunning artwork
• Explore the entire universe in which the movie is set
• Connect with mind-blowing alien cultures and snag their technologies
• Create the Alpha metropolis — your imagination is the only limit
• A unique combination of city building, exploration and diplomacyGoogle Play LinkiOS link

Friday, 7 July 2017

Birmingham, United Kingdom – July 2017 – Award nominated indie developer and publisher VooFoo Studios, best known for the ‘Pure’ series and acclaimed top-down racer, Mantis Burn Racing®, today proudly celebrate their 10th birthday! To mark the occasion VooFoo has revealed that their games have generated over 5.5M downloads across all platforms to date.

Technology Director and owner of VooFoo Studios, Mark Williams, is delighted to have reached such a prestigious milestone, “For a small indie studio to be celebrating our 10th anniversary and over 5M downloads in such a notoriously unpredictable industry is something we can all be immensely proud of. It's testament to the hard work, determination and talent of the team and I want to thank everyone who has contributed to all of our achievements over the past 10 years. With our move into publishing, work underway on a new owned IP and exciting plans for Mantis Burn Racing®, the future’s never looked brighter for the studio - here’s to the next 10 years!”

VooFoo Studios was founded in 2007, starting out as just a three-man team short on resources and finance but equipped with boundless enthusiasm and an unflinching ambition to create fun, best-in-class games that anyone can play. After many years hard work, the studio has grown and developed a proud reputation for creative and technical expertise with games that have released on every major gaming console, PC and mobile, all of which have been developed using their own in-house tech and game engine.

VooFoo’s first published game, Hustle Kings, published by Sony in 2009, reached the top of the PSN charts, earning them two Develop Awards nominations in the process. Whilst Hustle Kings helped launch the studio, the VooFoo developed ‘Pure’ series of games - Pure Chess (2012), Pure Pool (2014) and Pure Hold’em (2015), along with Big Sky Infinity (2012), FlyHunter (2014) and Mantis Burn Racing® (2016), earned the studio hoards of enthusiastic reviews from press and gamers worldwide and have collectively generated over 5.5M downloads across all platforms. With a growing team and increased in-house expertise, 2016 saw VooFoo take the bold and exciting step into publishing with the release of their first owned IP, the highly acclaimed and incredibly addictive top-down racer, Mantis Burn Racing®, on PlayStation®4, Xbox One and Steam (PC).

VooFoo Studios 2017
Whilst VooFoo are rightfully proud of their achievements over the past 10 years, with a new publishing capability, work underway on a brand-new IP and exciting plans to extend Mantis Burn Racing® into new areas, they are confident that their biggest successes are still ahead of them.

Monday, 3 July 2017

Florianópolis, Brazil — 30th June, 2017 — Hoplon, the leading video games developer in Brazil is today delighted to announce that upcoming car-combat MOBA, Heavy Metal Machines registration will be open for its Esports European Championship from 1st July 2017 for a limited period via ESL Play. Heavy Metal Machines is currently available to play for free on Steam.

Filled with fast-paced action, team play elements, unique MOBA gameplay and a heavy metal soundtrack, aspiring esports players, or current professionals across the globe, will be able to register for the first Heavy Metal Machines competitive tournament hosted on a European server with a prize pool of over €10,000. Hoplon is taking the necessary steps intended for its most important Heavy Metal Machines event, with recent leaderboards and bomb updates ensuring the MOBA is prepared for the competitive scene.

Players will be able to register through the official ESL website, connect their Steam account to their ESL account, and then team-up in Heavy Metal Machines. The captain of the team will register their side into the championship on the ESL platform.

The tournament dates and rounds are as follows:
1st July – Registrations opening

16th July – Qualifiers
First round – the Swiss Model will be used, which is broken down into rounds. Opponents being chosen at random.
Second round – winners play against winners and losers against losers.
Third round – has people who have played two and won two games pitted against each other. The same goes for those who have won one and lost one – they play each other, and those who’ve played two and lost two play one another.

23rd July – Play-offs
Top eight teams from the Qualifiers advance to the Play-offs.
A double elimination bracket system will be used – everyone has to lose twice before they are eliminated.

30th July – Main Finals (and Lower Bracket)
Lower Bracket Final is played between the last loser of the Upper Bracket and the Lower Bracket winner.
Main Final is played between the winner of the Lower Bracket Final and the winner of the Upper Bracket.
Second and third place game is not played – same prize pool